Kuldeep Kumar is a senior Indian Police Service officer with a rich blend of operational experience and keen interest in police research. During his three decades of policing career, he has held several challenging assignments in state police, the Intelligence Bureau, and the Central Industrial Security Force, and served with distinction in the insurgency-prone states of Tripura, Assam, and Jammu and Kashmir. He is a recipient of the Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service and Police (Internal Security Service) Medal, and has secured the highly competitive Australia Leadership Awards (ALA) scholarship for research on counterinsurgency in Australia. He holds postgraduate degrees in Politics from Monash University, Australia; Security and Organizational Risk Management from Leicester University, United Kingdom; and English Literature from Kurukshetra University, India. He has qualified the FBI National Academy program at Quantico, Virginia (USA) and has also attended numerous other training programs in India and abroad. Presently, Kuldeep Kumar is posted as the Chief Vigilance Officer in a major public sector undertaking in New Delhi.